Korea Is World's Fastest Internet

Aka mai Technologies, an internet information agency, released its 2009 “State of the Internet” report, which lists the top 100 fastest internet cities in the world. Of the one hundred, 59 Asian cities made it to the list, dominated by, who else, Japan and Korea. And get this, Korea surpassed Japan at the no. 1 spot! Now, where is Masan, South Korea again? I might want to set up my own PC bang business in that city.



The speed figures (kbps) can really get very shocking, especially if you are like me who's long thrived with third-world speed levels, which is still 10x less when compared with the 100th fastest. The average internet broadband speed in the Philippines is at 2,000 kbps (2 mbps), while Koreans enjoy effin' 40,000+ kbps (40mbps). Come on!

It's a sure reverse culture shock that I'm am going to get once I return to the Philippines. Korea's fast internet has been home to me.

Read More...

Putting a Clean Slate Online

I don’t really think it’s healthy to have too many accounts online. Sure, you can have two e-mail addresses to separate your professional and personal stuff, but when you’ve consumed all the popular names in the free-email services industry, it’s either you are in some really serious online business, or you’re already doing some poser jobs! Haha.

Ok, ok. I guess for as long as you’ve been taught some basic ‘accounts and time management’ rules, then having Yahoo! G-Mail, and Hotmail accounts all at the same time may seem fine. You may have all the internet time in the world to check and regularly clean them, lucky you.

Read More...